UITableView heightForHeaderInSection not working

Question

I have a simple UITableView (sample project here) but the section headers do not respect the height I'm setting in the heightForHeaderInSection

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    return 40;
} 

The table view looks like this. The 1 section header has a correct height but not the other ones.

When I inspect the view with the Reveal app, it seems that there is a kind of footer after the last cell in the section.

What am I doing wrong?

Solution 1

What seems to work is this

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section {
    return 0.0001f; // 0.0f does not work
}

or even better, in loadView

self.tableView.sectionFooterHeight = 0.0f;

Solution 2

Swift:

Swift version of approved answer:

override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForFooterInSection section: Int) -> CGFloat {
    return CGFloat.leastNonzeroMagnitude
}

Comments

[ChintaN -Maddy- Ramani]

Make it Plain if you don't want group else you should add heightForFooter delegate and return 0.

[Jan]

Returning 0 in heightForFooterInSection does not work. I tried also returning nil in viewForFooterInSection

[Pfitz]

seems like a bug. There are other answers to this problem with the same solution.

[gnasher729]

@Jan: This seems to be both a hack and the solution :-(

[bcause]

2019 and still an issue. +1 for sectionFooterHeight = 0, this seems to be the cleanest solution.

[Jacob]

combining this answer this with the post below, I use tableView.sectionFooterHeight = CGFloat.leastNonzeroMagnitude

[Viktor Malyi]

2020 and still an issue

[AZZ]

2021 and still an issue. in iOS10.